Repetto

Repetto
IndustryBallet Shoe Manufacturer
Founded1947; 77 years ago (1947)
FounderRose Repetto
Headquarters
Websiterepetto.com

Repetto is a French ballet shoe company founded in 1947 by Rose Repetto, after her son, choreographer Roland Petit, would come home from classes complaining of sore feet. Repetto provides ballet shoes for the Opéra National de Paris and many other well-known French ballet companies.[1] As of 2013, the company had 60 million euros in revenues and employed 340 people.[2]

  1. ^ "Repetto, 60 ans de grâce". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. ^ Mustiere, Anais (26 August 2013). "Les ballerines Repetto accélèrent le pas en Asie". Le Fiagro.